期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 106, 期 16, 页码 6556-6560出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811323106
关键词
cognitive development; early bilingualism; executive functions; eye-tracking; infant cognition
资金
- Newly Emerging Fields of Science and Technology PATHFINDER initiative What it means to be human (CALACEI)
- J. S. McDonnell Foundation
- European Union Marie Curie DISCOS [RTN 035975]
- Central European Initiative fellowship
Children exposed to bilingual input typically learn 2 languages without obvious difficulties. However, it is unclear how preverbal infants cope with the inconsistent input and how bilingualism affects early development. In 3 eye-tracking studies we show that 7-month-old infants, raised with 2 languages from birth, display improved cognitive control abilities compared with matched monolinguals. Whereas both monolinguals and bilinguals learned to respond to a speech or visual cue to anticipate a reward on one side of a screen, only bilinguals succeeded in redirecting their anticipatory looks when the cue began signaling the reward on the opposite side. Bilingual infants rapidly suppressed their looks to the first location and learned the new response. These findings show that processing representations from 2 languages leads to a domain-general enhancement of the cognitive control system well before the onset of speech.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据